Meet Akhila: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life until the day she purchases a one way train ticket. In an intimate all-women sleeping car, Akhila asks five women the question that has been haunting her: can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete? This wonderfully atmospheric, deliciously warm novel takes the reader into the heart of women's lives in contemporary India, whose dilemmas are the same as others around the ...
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Meet Akhila: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life until the day she purchases a one way train ticket. In an intimate all-women sleeping car, Akhila asks five women the question that has been haunting her: can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete? This wonderfully atmospheric, deliciously warm novel takes the reader into the heart of women's lives in contemporary India, whose dilemmas are the same as others around the world.
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